A classic red rose from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. Vertical color photograph: a fully bloomed red rose sits atop it stem near the top center of the frame. It is surrounded by green, broken up up by splashes of red where other roses bloom in the center and bottom left of the frame. Near the bottom of the featured rose's stalk, another red rose , on the backside of the stalk, is preparing to reach full bloom.

A classic red rose from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR.

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Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. In the foreground, on the right side of the image is a pink rose with a yellow center in full bloom. Behind it, a little up and to the left, is a similarly colored rose a day or two from reaching full bloom. The two colorful flowers are surround by the dark greens of rose leaves.

Another from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. So many roses...

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Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. Horizontal color photograph: a large, fully opened yellow and pink rose dominates the foreground on the left side of the composition, just above the frame midline and about 1/3 of the way from the left edge of the image. To its right, int he background, similar blooms are visible. Beyond and that, and more towards frame center and nearer the top of the image,scattered out of focus, pink roses dot the background. Everywhere is in the phot is the dark green of rose leaves.

Another from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR.

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The Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. If you're a rose or flower lover, you should see and smell this place. Vertical color photograph: A large peach-and-pink rose in full bloom dominatinates the foreground of the image. It is the left center of the frame. Behind it, above it, and to the right of it is an orange-yellow bloom that is still unfurling. And behind that, even further to the right an out-of-focus is a pink rose in full bloom. The flowers are surrounded by dark green leaves.

The Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. If you're a rose or flower lover, you should see this place.

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Hardy Fuchsia flowers, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon. Vertical color photograph: A pair of red Hardy Fuchsia blooms, one atop the other. Their stems parallel as they come out from the plant along the left side of the image, then bend at almost a 90 degree angle just before the base of the flowers. The lower flower is opened, revealing the interior set of bluer petals and the descending stamen. It is echoed to the left, in the background, by another opened flower. The top flower is still closed. The background is shades of green from dark to light, with some areas of red from more flowers behind the background bloom.

The Main Feature and the Coming Attraction

Hardy Fuchsia flowers, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon.

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Hardy Fuchsia, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, OR. Click through to spot the teensy-tiny spider on patrol. Square color photograph. A cluster of hardy fuchsia flowers hang downwards against a sea of green with splashes of red from other flowers in the background. The flowers have red petals that open like helicopter blades to disclose blue-purple petals wrapped around long red stamen. A tiny spider crawls along the lead flower.

Hardy Fuchsia, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, OR. Click through to spot the teensy-tiny spider on patrol.

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Green Diver Down!

A katydid goes diving in a rose in the Portland International Rose Test Gard in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon.

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